April 19, 2017

Book review

A bird in hand may save the world in this Charlie Jane Anders magical fantasy

When Patricia Delfine was 6 years old, she found a wounded bird. As a 6-year-old might, she started to take it home. The bird started talking to her and persuaded her instead to take it to the Parliament of Birds to be healed. There she was given a riddle: “Is a tree red?” That riddle would haunt her into her adult life and lead to her saving the world.

Seattle Municipal Court is considering a case over an impounded vehicle and a parking ticket that could change how the city responds to car campers in Seattle.

Steven Long is fighting a parking ticket and the fines he received when his truck was located in South Seattle in a location his attorneys described as out-of-the-way.

Long received a ticket and a $900 fine to get his truck back from impound. His attorneys argue that losing his home and the monetary fines amount to excessive fines disporportionate to the civil parking infraction he received.

You are on the land of indigenous people. That’s the message Tracy Rector wants visitors to the Paramount Theatre to keep in mind as they walk through its doors. Rector is the curator of the art exhibition “Indigenous Centered Perspectives.” The show is located in the lobby bar at the Paramount, which now doubles as an art gallery called Re:definition. Works from Native photographers Kalen Goodluck and Adam Sings In The Timber reinforce Rector’s message and the show provides a venue for their self-expression.

Opinion

I thought working at Amazon was going to be amazing. I’d heard they had a dog park and a banana stand where anyone can just walk up and get a banana. I assumed they’d have prayer rooms for Muslims, and I thought, “Wow, they’re really accommodating.” But now I see they save these things for only certain Amazon employees.

It’s the second time I’ve been summoned in 5 years. I have vivid memories of the last time I served: I sat in Maleng Regional Justice Center’s broom closet pumping milk for my 5-month-old daughter every three hours. I had to find an outlet in the entryway and thread the power cord under the door.

All United Airlines wanted was to just go about its business. Unbelievably, Vietnam immigrant and doctor of taking-up-space David Dao could not accept that.

When you’re an airline you do what airlines do. You make planes go. People pay you to ride in them, but, so what? That’s their business. Your business, as an airline, is making the planes go. Up and down and over and back.

Planes need crews. This particular plane, the one that David Dao paid for a seat in, happened to need two crews. One crew to fly the plane and another crew to fly some other plane in the future.

If you ask Erika Badu, she’d say Chris Anderson is a skilled producer who she couldn’t pass up to collaborate on her critically acclaimed song “Honey.” If you ask the Seattle nightlife and entertainment scene, they’d say, “The launch night DJ.” If you ask an up-and-coming artist like Porter Ray, he’d say, “He’s in artist development.”

But truth is, Chris Anderson is a community and entertainment renaissance man.

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Nathanial Trotter is an artist, inventor and entrepreneur. A warm, friendly person, he loves the Broncos, Denver and the people who live there. He believes he has been blessed by God with “a personality to get along with people,” an attribute he uses daily to sell papers.